Creepy. Yet interesting...if anyone has answers please share

[OnTheEdgeToday]

In work today a 4 year old asked who that was standing behind me. No one was behind me, but i had another child to the side of me. I said the name of the child beside me and the 4 year old said "nooo! Not him! It is a man. Who is that man behind you?" I was the only adult there.

I was a little creeped, but intrigued. I would have loved to have been able to delve deeper into it but it wouldnt have been very professional. Thankfully i was distracted by another child and all was forgotten by the child.

I am curious though. Wondering who it may have been, why they were behind me (there was only a wall behind me) and whether they were attached to my work, or myself.

Marking!

Marking?

They say children are more open to these things.
The child could have been pretending too.

The child could have been pretending, but she was orginally nattering on with friends over what they were about to do. Then when she looked at me, that is when she asked...just naturally. It was strange either way

A few months ago my 1-year-old came running up to me, pointed behind her into the empty kitchen and said "Man! Man! Man!"

"Er, there isn't a man there, sweetheart."

"Man! Is man is man!"

So I followed her back into the kitchen, trying to be all sensible but still feeling more than a little worried, saying "okay, love, show me the man"...

And she marched over to a book with a photo of a man's face on the spine, about a centimetre high, and said "Man!"

Gah.

Haha aw see she was right. There was a man :)

One of my Dds first words were, pointing at the corner of her room from her cot, 'Deevil'.

My baby DS had hysterics because the rocking horse spoke to him and moved towards him. I still don't like the thing.

Could you ask the 4 yr old to draw a picture of the man OP?

My son used to have night terrors and point out his nightmares...obviously he was asleep/awake and could see them in his dream state but i couldnt.
There was always that lingering doubt that maybe he was awake and it wasnt his dream at all. They were just as scary for him as there were for me. Only he was able to forget theu ever happened the next day, i was still freaked out lol.

That rocking horse would freak me out.
I would have to see if she mentions it again and then maybe suggest it somehow.

I get sleep paralysis so maybe DS does too- I see and hear things that are not there while paralysed.
DS was in his cot waking from a nap when he had the horse experience, prime sleep paralysis time. That is how I explain it anyway. I moved the horse away from all bedrooms though, just in case.

Sleep paralysis is truly awful. I think it would be hard to top that on a scare factor

I never thought of sleep paralysis as an explanation. I suffered horribly through my late teens and twenties. I had never thought of children having it. God scary for them if that's the case.

They call them night terrors in children as they usually dont suffer the paralysis as we do as grown ups or teenagers.
My son suffered them every night for years.
Epsidoes would last from 20 minutes to 1.30 minutes. Roughly 5 episodes per night.
He would sit up, wouldnt allow me to touch him. Scream he wanted mum. I was probably a monster in his eyes. His eyes would be open. It was awful because i would want to comfort him, but how can i expect a big monster to be able to comfort him. I just had to shhhh and its alright baby whilst trying to gently stroke his hand or what have to until he fell back to sleep. Couldnt leave him incase he hurt himself trying to get away or what have you.